First Exploit: Intro to Automation for Security Workflows

First Exploit: Intro to Automation for Security Workflows

This post shows a tiny, safe example of how you might begin automating small security tasks and wire them into n8n later.

Motivation

Automation reduces manual toil and helps you chain detection -> enrichment -> response steps. This post is intentionally lightweight and conceptual.

Example: Gather system info (safe demo)

Below is a sample snippet (non-malicious) that you’d normally run in a sandbox. In a real workflow you’d use remote runners or orchestrators.

# Sample commands (do not run on production without consent)
uname -a
whoami

Next steps for n8n

• Export content metadata as JSON for n8n to ingest.
• Build a small webhook in n8n that triggers reading a post’s pubDate and tags to kick off automations.

If you want, I can add a tiny script that exports the blogs collection to JSON for n8n to consume.